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Vasily Abaev

1900 - 2001

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Vasily (Vaso) Ivanovich Abaev, also Abayev or Abayti (Russian: Василий Иванович Абаев, Ossetian: Абайты Иваны фырт Васо; 15 December 1900 – 18 March 2001) was a Soviet Ossetian linguist specializing in Iranian, particularly Ossetian linguistics. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vasily Abaev has received more than 50,658 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Vasily Abaev is the 128th most popular linguist (down from 117th in 2019), the 159th most popular biography from Georgia (down from 136th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Georgian Linguist.

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  • 47.76

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  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.10

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.18

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Vasily Abaev ranks 128 out of 161Before him are Jan de Vries, William Dwight Whitney, Ferdinand Johann Wiedemann, Giuliano Bonfante, Yevgeny Polivanov, and Waldemar Rosenberger. After him are Vyacheslav Ivanov, Johan Nicolai Madvig, Robert Blust, Gaston Waringhien, Felix Jacoby, and Zellig Harris.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1900, Vasily Abaev ranks 201Before him are Teodoro Picado Michalski, Roland Penrose, Charles Jewtraw, Ioannis Theodoropoulos, Marta Abba, and Ioannis Andreou. After him are Manuel Plaza, István Fekete, Frederick Terman, Ivan Ivanov-Vano, Pedro Arispe, and Ivan Maslennikov. Among people deceased in 2001, Vasily Abaev ranks 191Before him are Phoolan Devi, Mongo Beti, Enrique Mateos, Lewis Arquette, Eugene Sledge, and Jenő Fock. After him are Dale Earnhardt, József Csermák, Lee Cronbach, Yuri Ozerov, Jean Richard, and Betty Holberton.

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In Georgia

Among people born in Georgia, Vasily Abaev ranks 159 out of 342Before him are Haykanoush Danielyan (1893), Joseph Orbeli (1887), Davit Guramishvili (1705), Merab Kostava (1939), Otar Korkia (1923), and Otar Chiladze (1933). After him are Givi Javakhishvili (1912), Marlen Khutsiev (1925), Benjamin Markarian (1913), Nani Bregvadze (1938), Giorgi Kvirikashvili (1967), and Lado Gudiashvili (1896).

Among LINGUISTS In Georgia

Among linguists born in Georgia, Vasily Abaev ranks 3Before him are Nicholas Marr (1864) and Tamaz V. Gamkrelidze (1929).